BAFTAs 2022: My predictions & the winners
Tonight is the biggest night in the British film calendar – the 2022 British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTAs! The action is currently going down at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will be televised on BBC One from 7pm.
Here are my predictions! The list has been updated with the winners in bold.
Here we go:
Best Film:
Belfast – WANT TO WIN
Dune
The Power of the Dog – WILL WIN
Don’t Look Up
Licorice Pizza
Outstanding British Film:
Belfast – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
After Love
Ali & Ava
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die – COULD WIN
Passing – WANT TO WIN
Best Leading Actor:
Will Smith – King Richard – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog – COULD WIN
Adeel Akhtar – Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali – Swan Song
Leonardo DiCaprio – Don’t Look Up
Stephen Graham – Boiling Point
Best Leading Actress:
Lady Gaga – House of Gucci
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones – CODA – WANT TO WIN
Joanna Scanlan – After Love
Tessa Thompson – Passing
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
(I truly have no idea, this category is wide open!)
Best Supporting Actor:
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Mike Faist – West Side Story
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
Woody Norman – C’Mon C’Mon
Best Supporting Actress:
Caitriona Balfe – Belfast
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – COULD WIN
Ruth Negga – Passing – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Ann Dowd – Mass – WANT TO WIN
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
EE Rising Star Award:
Lashana Lynch
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Ariana DeBose – WILL WIN
Harris Dickinson
Millicent Simmonds – WANT TO WIN
Best Director:
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WILL WIN
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Aleem Khan – After Love
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Audrey Diwan – Happening
Julia Ducournau – Titane – WANT TO WIN
Best Original Screenplay:
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Adam McKay, David Sirota – Don’t Look Up
Aaron Sorkin – Being the Ricardos
Zach Baylin – King Richard
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WILL WIN
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Siân Heder – CODA – WANT TO WIN
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth – Dune
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Best Original Score:
Hans Zimmer – Dune – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Alexandre Desplat – The French Dispatch
Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog
Nicholas Britell – Don’t Look Up
Daniel Pemberton – Being the Ricardos
Best Animated Film:
Encanto – WILL WIN
Flee
The Mitchells vs. The Machines – WANT TO WIN
Luca
Best Documentary:
Flee – WANT TO WIN
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – WILL WIN
The Rescue
Cow
Becoming Cousteau
Best Film Not in the English Language:
Drive My Car – WILL WIN
The Worst Person in the World – WANT TO WIN
Parallel Mothers
The Hand of God
Petit Maman – ALSO LOVE THIS MOVIE
Best Cinematography:
Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Greig Fraser – Dune – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Dan Laustsen – Nightmare Alley
Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog
Linus Sandgren – No Time to Die
Best Production Design:
Cyrano
Dune – WILL WIN
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley – WANT TO WIN
West Side Story
(All five movies deserve this award!)
Best Costume Design:
Cruella – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
Best Hair and Make-Up:
Cruella – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Cyrano
Best Sound:
Dune – WILL WIN
Last Night in Soho – MIGHT WIN/WANT TO WIN
No Time to Die
A Quiet Place Part II
West Side Story
Best Editing:
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
No Time to Die – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Best Special Visual Effects:
Dune
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Free Guy
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Best Casting:
Boiling Point
Dune
The Hand of God
King Richard
West Side Story – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:
Aleem Khan – After Love – WANT TO WIN
James Cummings, Hester Ruoff – Boiling Point
Jeymes Samuel – The Harder They Fall – WILL WIN
Posy Dixon, Liv Proctor – Keyboard Fantasies
Rebecca Hall – Passing – COULD WIN.